Posts Tagged "Video"

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I saw this commercial for HomeGoods just now and I thought it would be great to share! Two of the most common questions I get are, “How can we get started with simple church?” and “How are children involved in simple church?” I thought the commercial illustrates potential answers to both!

Take a break from what you are doing and watch this short video. Will you be a trader? I am afraid that if we are unwilling to be traders that our simple churches will be reduced to nothing more than a different type of church meeting we attend each week (or whenever our time allows). How can your simple church community help encourage each other to be traders?

The folks from the Skate Church are premiering “Seek First” on June 21st at the Kentucky Theater. Seek First is a skate video documentary featuring some of their best tricks over the last three years and also features the faith stories of Jonathan Wilson, Josh Roberts, Gideon Maki, and Sam Mullins.
June 21 – 9:00PM
Kentucky Theater, Downtown Lexington
214 E Main St, Lexington, KY 40507
Admission is Free!
From the www.seekfirstvideo.com website:
Over three years ago, Josh Roberts sensed that God was leading him to make a skate video that would share the message of hope and forgiveness through Jesus that he had recently experienced. As Josh...

There are a lot videos floating around that aid in explaining simple church and house church ideas. We’ve gathered several here on this website. This particular video pulls from a few of my favorites. I also like the presenters thought about how simple churches can multiply… be in two simple churches at the same time! I’m interested in your thoughts on this idea. In some ways I think that the first “community” someone would be involved in could be something like a “Life Transformation Group” or a smaller disciple-making relationship of two or three. Nonetheless, I think he does a good job of explaining visually the hope of...

Below Gavin Duerson shares the vision of the Simple Church Alliance and challenges simple church leaders to consider how specifically God is asking them to live out the Great Commission. We would love to hear from you about how you are led to answer the questions Gavin asks in the video! Please email us at simplechurchalliance@gmail.com

I came across this video the other day and I thought it was a great teaching tool for simple church. What do you think? What could this video possibly have to say to us about simple church?… I’d love for you to take a stab at it and post your comments below. Perhaps we can create a group-like teachable moment right here on this page. If you get stuck, click on the video to view comments posted on YouTube. See if any of them sound familiar!

This is part three of Erik’s video series on simple church. Here he addresses the question, “Why start Simple Churches?” I appreciate the simplicity in which Erik explains “church” as a natural result of disciples making disciples–which God desire to do through every follower of his. It is simple and natural to see groups of disciples coming together to follow Jesus in community with each other.

In this video Erik addresses the question of how a simple church can be formed and what the church does at a simple church gathering. He has some very practical ideas and as you can see it is simple. I love his last point about praying that God would show you pockets of people who are “culturally averse to the American way of doing church” and being available to see a seed church formed.

I had a great visit with Erik a while back in Cleveland and he is a great partner in promoting simple/organic expressions of church multiplication. He has recently posted a series of short teachings on simple church and discipleship. I will repost them here in the coming days. In this video, I think the term “seed form of church” is helpful to think about when making disciples and seeing simple churches formed. Sometimes I think we can fall into the trap of thinking that we have to have fully mature simple church functioning on day one for it to count as real local church. Enjoy the first video!

Check out the video below and hear Lecrae echo our plea to end the sacred/secular divide and truly embrace the “priesthood of all believers” (I have actually used the “JV” analogy he uses in the talk many times to address this issue. It is always amazing to see how God puts the same ideas, even same words, in the hearts of people from different places and different backgrounds.) and call believers to live as missionaries within their given cultural context.
I am convinced that the number one challenge for existing simple/house/organic churches is to continue heeding this call. Failure to do so will result in ingrown groups of Christians...